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Days Out on the Ouse Washes

Welcome to the Ouse Washes landscape. Wide open skies, fabulous sunsets and straight lines generate a feeling of remoteness and tranquillity in this rural landscape north of Cambridge, reaching from St Ives in the south to Downham Market in the north. It is the heart of the Cambridgeshire and Norfolk fens and includes the RSPB Ouse Washes, Fen Drayton lakes, Ouse Fen wetland reserves and WWT Welney Wetland Centre, all of international importance to wildfowl.

The area offers unique highlights that are worth exploring. This beautiful, largely unspoilt, rural landscape provides a peaceful environment for walking, exploring and getting close to nature. The area is renowned for its waterways and contains one of the UK’s most extensive networks of wetlands habitats. The area is also very important for its archaeology because of its good wetland preservation. It is full of interesting historic remains, rich in prehistoric, Roman and more recent archaeological sites including well-preserved ancient settlements and ritual monuments and magnificent engineering drainage.

Many more films about the fantastic Ouse Washes and Fenland attractions, waterways, heritage and wildlife can be seen on the tens of films available on the OWLP’s Youtube site – see the OWLP’s YouTube homepage and our many Playlists – enjoy!

About the Ouse Washes Landscape Partnership

The Ouse Washes Landscape Partnership (OWLP) scheme is a Heritage Lottery Fund grant-aided scheme in the heart of the Cambridgeshire and Norfolk Fens focusing on the distinctively rural, open and tranquil landscape surrounding the Ouse Washes and its unique heritage. Find out more >>